Bücher von Ron Raye

Mask is a collection of poems dealing with the mask all men wear from birth. They are taught to be something other than themselves. In these poems, the poet or the voice is battling to strip himself of this mask. But it is difficult for men to keep their sanity by hiding behind the physical world by propping themselves up in an artificial frame. No one is who he says he is. Every man plays a character other than himself. He hides the dark seed of what he truly is in an artificial frame, dismantling part of his conscience. In this world, the poet's lover is the only one who keeps him from being a fake and living in a world he neither understands nor knows.A man goes in search of the secrets to his lover's heart.Some live and operate in a world they do not understand. Yet, continue and then die without knowing what went before them. We stay behind the mask until death.A man laments his old age but finds comfort in his lover's touch and, at the same time, regrets being able to see his true face because of the mask he has worn throughout his life.

The origin of this composition begins as a dream fragment and then fades away, and I thought it would be a good idea if I picked up where that dream left off.West Montgomery, Charley Parker, Johnny Hodges, and Ray Lucus were jamming on the banks of some nondescript river. Suddenly, T.S. Eliot's ghost appears and begins reading his dead yellow-newspaper-cathedral poetry. Fifteen minutes into the reading, his audience falls asleep. Whitman, Ginsberg, and Leroi Jones come up behind him., tap him on the shoulder, and whisper in his ear: This is not a funeral ceremony, mate. Get on with it, will you?

These poems reflect love, peace, war, corruption, and whether men can bring harmony to all and restore balance to the planet. At times, the voice is sad and hopeless. At other times, upbeat and hopeful.Within these pages, I give you a collection of poems dealing with the relationship between man and his desire to destroy the planet, hoping to stitch it back together again. Each poem takes a look into the soul of man. He is capable of love but also has a propensity for the destruction of the most evil kind. He is plagued with the need to conquer and to possess something new. The business of living haunts him, and he knows very little about what to do with it because time is his enemy.Time, the unseenhas a way of defeatingwhat you are...

After mysterious explosives strike an unknown, unnamed city, people are killed, structures are disseminated, and the environment is contaminated. The only survivors are a woman, Rosa, and her son, Rob.Rosa's twin daughters are struck by debris while asleep and die. She is so agonizingly distraught that she wraps the bodies in white sheets and puts them in a pull cart under the pretense that they are asleep and will awake at some point to continue their lives. She tries to convince Rob, who suffers from trauma and cannot make sense of anything. His only objective is to follow his mother and stay by her side.Together they hike across the burnt landscape, supporting and comforting each other.Rosa's world collapses when Rob suddenly dies in her arms of a mysterious illness.

These poems represent a journey through man's troubled past, the chaos he is responsible for in the present, and the uncertainty he presents for the future. The poet sees decay in everything except love. He convinces himself that man will always love no matter how evil the world is. In one poem, a man discovers the code of existence or the essence of life while he travels through time. The voice urges him to leave the world he currently lives in since it is not real and is driven only by sin and the desires of the flesh.Here:The face of history is smeared with bloodand will never be washed cleankillers left their footprints in the mudthe world is mired in conflict after conflictwhere projects protrude from a collapsed spleen...

These verses are about a man trying to find his place in the world, and how he prospers by destroying others and even the ones he loves. He sets up a dichotomy that pretends to be good versus evil and we disseminate these two opposites through the voice of the God he created. Man views Him as the Supreme Being and believes, through Him, is the only way he can acquire redemption.The unknown entity, Willem is still at large. The Priest spotted him on a trawler battling through choppy waters on the Bosphorous Straits heading into Instanbul.The author spreads his net far in this final volume. He deals with several subjects, including love, betrayal, the haunting nature of death in man's consciousness, and his complex legacy of starting wars to destroy what he has built and his own kind. So, that a few can prosper.The poet-speaker takes us through the modus operandi of death. In The Silencer, the poet tracks the steps and psychology of death:The Silencer comes when life is sweetand in his work shows little mercy.He becomes a collaborator of timefeeding us twisted, convoluted rhymes...I have crafted these poems with skill and intensity that goes beyond language.